Major Jane McMurtry is learning to walk after an IED ripped into her legs. Fitted with a new set of prosthetic legs, Jane can do more now. She can start tracking again with her new dog. She can go for long walks around her Colorado ranch. Even her back and hip pain have diminished. But that's not the sort of pain pressing down on Jane. She misses Shadow, the dog she trained and had to leave in Afghanistan. If he could come home. If she only had Shadow at her side, she'd handle things better. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like he'll come soon, not before he finishes his tour of duty. That's what Army regs and bureaucrats say. That means Jane will have to face her pain alone and either fold under its thumb, or push on as best she can. Read other episodes in the series This is a prequel to the Tracking Jane. Together with two previous episodes, Shadow-7's and Rover, trace the start of Jane McMurtry's life following her return home from wars that have left her and her dog scarred in many ways.

Army canine trainer and handler Jane McMurtry served in Afghanistan with her dog Shadow until an IED blew her legs away. Now, after learning to walk again, alongside a new canine companion, Jane is tracking the scent of kidnapped children in the Colorado high country when her past, her inner turmoil, and her current case collide. Though Jane thought she’d have to wait two more years, Shadow returns home when he himself suffers injuries. Now two dogs and one woman will struggle to redeem and get on with their lives. In this struggle, Jane partners with a police officer who will make her face the choice between self-loathing and accepting someone’s patient, unconditional love.

Jane and her dogs are home, but the war followed them here... A suicide bombing in Denver International airport returns Jane McMurtry to the sort of tracking she’d left back in Afghanistan and Iraq – the kind that comes with large explosions, torn body parts, and few answers. The war has come home, or maybe it’s always lurked here, inside her mind and soul. Partnering again with Dan Murphy, now a member of a Federal task force, Jane will continue to grapple with how to make sense of her life and how to move on beyond her physical and psychological wounds. A small airport bomb-sniffing dog, Rover, will come alongside her to become an unlikely partner to find a terrorist network before they hit their ultimate target and diffuse the anguish that roils within her.

Along with Dan Murphy, Jane and her dogs Shady and Tahoe are hiking the Pacific Coast Trail when a series of earthquakes create emergency conditions. Jane will answer the call to assist a rescue operation–until she and her companions become stranded only to find they have become the object of someone’s twisted hunt. Finding their way through the High Sierras, Jane, Dan and her dogs will join forces in a struggle for survival against nature and those seeking ill advantage in its mayhem. Here, with nothing but herself, her dogs, and the man that loves her, Jane will face the God of nature and men who pervert his justice. Here she will race to find answers before the ground beneath her gives way and the world around her crumbles and explodes.

A dog shows Jane how to move on from internal strife to caring for others... Allison’s rescue dog, Brownie, becomes the latest subject in Jane’s training program. Raised as a drug detecting dog, he joins Allison, Jane, and Jane’s two other dogs in an undercover mission to infiltrate a Mexican drug cartel. Under the auspices of training guard and drug dogs for a major Mexican cartel, Allison and Jane will work to identify Middle East terrorist elements now embedded with the mobsters. The two women will find themselves as the bait, the keys to technology these terrorists will do anything to obtain. Or so they think. All the while, Jane will struggle with her friend’s increasing unpredictability and question her trustworthiness. After learning that the cartel is forcing immigrant children to mule their drugs that challenges Jane the most. She will have to decide whether to maintain her cover or assist twenty stranded kids in the New Mexico desert.

Jane McMurtry and Joe Brenner trained together and fought side by side during her first tour in Iraq. Now Joe has gone into hiding after allegedly murdering his wife and children. Like Jane, he suffers from PTSD. Like Jane he lost two legs in an IED explosion. Like her, he has benefited from specialized prosthetics. And because of the common past he and Jane share, it will fall on Jane to find him and bring him back into the fold. For Jane this will come at a heavy cost. To help him, she will have to face the demons the two of them share and the feelings she once had for him.

The hardest track will go through her heart... Jane returns home to Wyoming, the home of her childhood, to discover her brother has become embroiled in an apparent plot to attach land to a nearby Native American reservation. Or so it seems. Soon, Jane and her dogs will join an investigation involving a bizarre web of domestic terrorism, serial murders, and greed. Along the way Jane will examine her Native American heritage, and will grapple with what–if anything–she can do to help an oppressed and disenchanted people.

They tried to take her life, and failed. Now, they're going after her honor... Will this be the final episode in the Tracking Jane saga? The answer to this question will come in Jane's toughest struggle yet to face what has happened to her body and what it is making her become. In the midst of political manipulation and intrigue, she will grapple with her very identity, what makes her human, and she will fight alongside others facing the same conundrum.